Sentences with phrase «at large population studies»

Now even more conservative groups are starting to question this connection, citing a recent study that showed higher saturated fat consumption didn't mean higher rates of heart disease when looking at large population studies.

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In truth, the most recent study one can find shows that while about the same percentage identify as Christian (80 %) in prison as in the population at large, a much smaller percentage in prison identify as atheist (0.2 % of the prison population).

Actually, the most recent study I can find shows that while about the same percentage identify as Christian (80 %) in prison as in the population at large, a much smaller percentage in prison identify as atheist (0.2 % of the prison population).

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

These studies show little difference between epidural and nonepidural (usually opiate - exposed) babies in terms of Apgar score and umbilical - cord pH, both of which reflect the baby's condition at birth.78 However, a large - population survey from Sweden found that use of an epidural was significantly associated with a low Apgar score at birth.79

«It will be important to see whether these results can be confirmed in future, larger studies and in other populations,» said senior author Thomas Newman, MD, MPH, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF and a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

To see if these patterns were valid in a wider population, they undertook the larger, county - wide study, conducting an analysis of births at Women and Children's, Millard Fillmore Suburban, Sisters of Charity Hospital and Mercy Hospital, located either in the city of Buffalo or its nearby suburbs.

Research studies do not predict anything at all about any particular baby or babies — they look at trends in a large population.

Drop out at birth because of early death or loss to follow up was rare (0.4 %) and the study population was large with a high response rate.

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

«Our study shows that failed substance use policies can reverse life expectancy trends for large population groups or even countries,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, Director of Social and Epidemiological Research at CAMH and first author of the study.

These results indicate that the polymers studied have large cross sections for stimulated emission, that population inversion can be achieved at low pump energies, and that the emitted photons travel distances greater than the gain length within the gain medium.

In the study, a tipping point represented the point at which vaccine coverage declines dramatically due to spreading fear, which could cause large disease outbreaks due to a loss of population immunity.

«Before this study, we knew that these HIV prevention measures worked at an individual level, yet it was not clear that they would substantially reduce HIV incidence in a population — or even if it would be possible to get large numbers of people to adopt them,» said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH.

«Complications from thyroid cancer surgery more common than believed, study finds: Large population - based study identifies 3 groups most at risk of post-operative complications.»

Although the new JNCI study did not analyze individual cell phone usage — preferring instead to take a broader look at the population at large — other research has examined subgroups of cell phone users to try to discern different trends among more frequent use.

The study was conducted at Parkland, the public health system for Dallas County, the ninth largest county by population and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.. From Parkland's system of 10 neighborhood - based pediatric clinics, researchers identified four clinics with the largest volume of patients aged 11 to 18.

Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, adds: «Even with a reasonably large number of studies of anxiety disorder, data about marginalised groups is hard to find, and these are people who are likely to be at an even greater risk than the general population.

In the first study to report on the association of aspirin use with breast cancer outcomes in a large patient population, researchers examined the pattern of aspirin use, cancer pathology and overall survival in 1,000 patients treated at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania and diagnosed with breast cancers, including receptor positive, HER2 - positive and triple negative cancers.

The Navajo — at almost 300,000, the largest tribal population — have ruled out all participation in genetic studies.

A study of 222,000 technology, science, and medicine graduates showed that between 1990 and 2000 they started 49,000 new companies — a proportion no higher than among the adult population at large.

The study should also help management efforts aimed at protecting these populations because it suggests that the protection of large juveniles and adults should be a priority.

The problem of missing variables Janni Niclasen's study looks at the results of a large population study conducted between 1996 and 2002.

«This study gives us a better understanding of how living in an unpredictable environment can influence the population density of large animals that spend the majority of their time in tress,» said Erin Vogel, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University.

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

In this study that followed a large population of Swedish women over 16 years, the difference in median age at death between women with menopause at 40 years and women with menopause at 60 years was 1.3 years.

Now results from the first large population study conducted to assess the association show that older age at natural menopause and the use of oral HT are each associated with a higher risk of hearing loss.

The study by University of Florida and Research Triangle Park researchers is the first to look at sleep difficulty by smoking status in a large population - based, nationally representative sample.

To investigate this potential link, a team led by Rakhi Naik, MD, MHS (Johns Hopkins University) and Marguerite Irvin, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) analyzed data from a large population - based study, the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.

Nechuta and colleagues used data from the Shanghai Women's Health Study, a large, population - based prospective cohort study of about 75,000 women ages 40 to 70, from Shanghai, China, led by Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology CeStudy, a large, population - based prospective cohort study of about 75,000 women ages 40 to 70, from Shanghai, China, led by Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Cestudy of about 75,000 women ages 40 to 70, from Shanghai, China, led by Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, at the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

The study incorporates multiple environmental drivers — notably climate and fire — at large spatial scales for a significant number of species and populations.

Malin Pinsky, an ecologist at Rutgers University who studies population dynamics of coastal marine species and who was not involved in the research, described the study as significant because of its unusually large scope, as well as its focus on different fish life stages.

The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the breeding populations of three species of large gull; Herring Gull, Great Black - backed Gull and Lesser Black - backed Gull on the Hebridean island of Canna, and the relationship between these gull populations and the fall in the quantity of fish landed in the nearby harbour of Mallaig.

James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies argues that China and India will make this decision out of pure self - interest, since rising sea levels could place large portions of their coastal populations at risk.

«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is «immensely valuable» because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.

Based on data from the large H70 and women's population studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg Center for Aging and Health (AgeCap) have examined the sexual attitudes of senior citizens and identified the factors that determine whether or not they remain sexually active.

To see if mercury has comparable effects, Grandjean, along with Pál Weihe at the University of Southern Denmark, is conducting the largest study to date of children's cognition and behavior in a population routinely exposed to low levels of mercury.

The results of a large population study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2015) showed an increased risk of developing Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) among psoriasis patients exposed to physical trauma, particularly when the trauma involved bone and / or joints.

The anticipated boost in fertility rates is not large enough to alter projections that the global population will level off by midcentury, says study coauthor Hans - Peter Kohler, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Led by Thomas Cucchi of National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, and Lior Weissbrod of the University of Haifa in Israel, the study set out to explain large swings in the ratio of house mice to wild mice populations found during excavations of different prehistoric periods at an ancient Natufian hunter - gatherer site in the Jordan Valley of Israel.

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.

Previous studies have shown links between paternal depression and poor behavioural and emotional outcomes in their children, but no large study in the general population (as opposed to a clinical population) has looked at the link with adolescent depression while taking into account maternal depression as well.

But this is the first large population study to look at how a new diagnosis of depression might affect people with coronary heart disease, according to researchers.

The proponents of the BAM Project proposal focused on mapping large populations of neurons that would provide scientists an unprecedented understanding of the dynamics underlying this crucial middle scale at which consciousness and cognition emerge, but have so far lacked the tools to study.

«The discovery and confirmation of one distant and very massive protocluster is very exciting,» said Dr. Naveen Reddy, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Riverside and a coauthor of the study, «but it is important to find a large sample of these so we can understand the possibly varied formation history of the population as a whole.»

Conserving spawning aggregations not only conserves the large reproductive individuals that sustain the population, but, according to our study, ensures the success of their larvae,» said lead co-author Megan Donahue, an associate professor of marine biology at the University of Hawaii and member of the «Pretty Darn Good» Control Working Group at NIMBioS who helped produce the study.

A group of scientists at Stanford University have collaborated on a large study to understand genetic diversity in human populations.

Given the marked differences between the two patients in the study, it is difficult to draw conclusions that might be broadly applicable to a larger patient population at this time and clearly more patients are needed.